Infrastructural frontiers

Terrains of resistance at the material edge of the state

Bibliographic Data

ID8946431
AuthorsPeer Schouten (0000-0001-7453-6463, Danish Institute for International Studies, corresponding author), Jan Bachmann (0000-0001-9276-0442, University of Gothenburg)
Year2022
Volume136
Pages219-224
Publication date2022-06-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.06.002
OpenAlexW4283525298
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited63

This introduction to the special issue lays out some of the theoretical underpinnings of the notion of the ‘infrastructural frontier’. We begin by considering infrastructures as material geographies of power, before moving on to highlight how broader processes of order-making and resistance often become operational at the material edges of states: the places where transport and communication networks peter out and give way to terrains less amenable to remote control. Weaving together insights from the contributions to this special issue, we then show how the concept of the infrastructural frontier productively intervenes in the wider discussion on material geographies, frontiers, and borderlands, by placing the interplay between unsettled infrastructures and unsettled configurations of power at the edge of the state at the center of interest

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